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JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas State University officials say several prominent country music artists will be featured in an August concert to benefit restoration of the boyhood home at Dyess of the late singer Johnny Cash, and establishment of a museum there.

ASU announced Thursday the first Johnny Cash Music Festival concert Aug. 4 in the school's Convocation Center.

Cash, who died in 2003, was born in Cleveland County, Arkansas, but raised in Mississippi County after his family moved to a house in the federally funded Dyess Colony. ASU recently acquired the Cash homeplace and plans to restore it and build a museum.